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Winners and Losers in the Smart Speaker Wars (Premium)

For all the change brought on by personal technology, there’s been one constant over the years: The market can generally support only two major players within any given platform type. It was true of PCs, and it’s true with smartphones and tablets too. So we naturally begin looking at emerging platforms, like that for personal digital assistants, and wonder if we’re going to see the same shakeout over time.